Humbleness of the Mind, is an installation of work, which represents an intrapersonal study of my life. I investigate the joys and struggles of processing information as someone with a learning difference by showcasing a visual representation of thought and expressing my non-linear interior monologue. While the work is a personal study, I am thoughtful of how others will identify with my process in relation to how they learn. This work is multi-media including Book Arts, painting, and collage. Earth tones, and gestural qualities which come from the spontaneity of thoughts and physical mark making, are qualities that unify the work as well as the exploration of color and shape. This work is coupled with an audio track, illuminating and echoing a representation of my self- motivation, insecurities, and perseverance in the pursuit of learning. The representational paintings represent times in my life where I have developed and grown as a person, mirroring the process of learning I go through when challenged with the stimuli of everyday life.
The YA FEEL ME? show is TOMORROW!!!!!!
This photo is of what my studio looked like right before I took everything down to install it in the gallery on Saturday.
We had a great time installing our show, Ya Feel Me? all day today.
Working on The Place (Ecuador), which is acrylic paint and collage on wood.
My dad’s family lives mostly in Ecuador, which creates distance between my family and I, which in turn creates a distance between my identity and myself. This painting connects with this part of me that is filled with longing, self-discovery, and my love of family.
Finishing up my mobile and it has been overtaking my studio!
Mobile featuring
acrylic collage paintings on paper and various string
This mobile-like structure, entitled Mind the Brain, represents my brains attempt to create relationships between thoughts, words, and feelings. The amorphous, irregular shaped collaged and painted blobs represent the stringing together of thoughts in mind, attempting to find clarity.
Made my reception book, featuring paper from the Art Index of the 1940′s, as the covers.
We install in 9 days! This is so exciting! finishing up pieces, writing, descriptions, and getting work exhibition ready.
Here is the information about the show that my work (which this blog has been all about), and my classmates, Evan Sullivan, Danielle Franzen, Meghan Ferrero, Ariel Lund, Taylor Anufrom, and Caitlyn Doolittle artwork.
The reception will be on April 8th, 2015 at Montserrat College of Art’s 301 Gallery, from 5-8 pm. Please join us for this wonderful event!
Artist Statement
In this work I investigate the joys and struggles of processing written information as someone with a learning difference. I express the non-linear interior monologue that occurs when I clarify information, by showcasing a visual representation of thought coupled with an audio track echoing an honest representation of my self- motivation, insecurities, and perseverance in the pursuit of learning. By exploring color and shape through various tones, hues, values, and opacities I use gestural qualities in my physical mark making to show the spontaneity of my thoughts and to unify the work. .
While
the work is a personal study, my interest is in how others will identify with
my personal process in regards to their own unique way of seeing the world. This work is multi-media and includes
book arts, painting, and collage. The kitchen and bedroom paintings represent
times in my life where I have grown and places my mind wanders to as I attempt
to perceive information through the painting medium. It is my hope that through this work
others will be provided with a glimpse of how I experience the world, come to a
deeper understanding of the mind of someone else as well as their own.
This is what my studio looks like currently, getting very close to the show date and very excited! The reception is April 8th, 5-8pm at the 301 gallery at Montserrat College of Art.
My Bedroom,is the second painting I have been working on which represents another place that my mind goes when thinking about how I have become who I am. This is the bedroom I lived in from ages 10-17, a time in anyones lives when your head is filled with confusion, uncertainty, creativity, and hopefulness.
As with My First Kitchen, I started with Stonehendge, and then moved onto wood panel.
Acrylic paint and collage on wood panel.
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